Epson C64 Colour usage

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Hi,
We have 8 of these printers that we use to print BW text only documents
on.
Recently they have started to stop running because the colour ink tanks are
empty!
We do have the print in B/W only option set. Those nice people at Epson tell
me that the colour ink is being used each time we power the printer up (at
least a couple of times a day as we use them in a mobile environment) and
there is no way to make the printer work without colour ink! Rather
annoying, if we have to pay for colour ink we don't need / use...

Is there any way we can trick the printer / software into believing there is
colour ink there?

Thanks,
Meryl

 

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Ink is needed and you risk the chance of burning up the printhead with no
ink. I suggest either buying laser printers for your b&w work or buy
compatible cartridges for the C64.




"Meryl" <meryl@oedev.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> We have 8 of these printers that we use to print BW text only
documents
> on.
> Recently they have started to stop running because the colour ink tanks
are
> empty!
> We do have the print in B/W only option set. Those nice people at Epson
tell
> me that the colour ink is being used each time we power the printer up (at
> least a couple of times a day as we use them in a mobile environment) and
> there is no way to make the printer work without colour ink! Rather
> annoying, if we have to pay for colour ink we don't need / use...
>
> Is there any way we can trick the printer / software into believing there
is
> colour ink there?
>
> Thanks,
> Meryl
>
>

 

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Thanks for that. But -
I don't really care if the printhead does burn up on the colour side.
Becasue as I said in my original post we only use these printers for black
and white work.
Buying laser printers now won't make the Epsons any more usable - We don't
want to just write them off.
I'm looking for an alternative to buying any sort of ink at all compatible
or otherwise.
regards,
Meryl.

"safetymom123" <safetymom123@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> Ink is needed and you risk the chance of burning up the printhead with no
> ink. I suggest either buying laser printers for your b&w work or buy
> compatible cartridges for the C64.
>
>
>
>
> "Meryl" <meryl@oedev.com> wrote in message
> news:40f659bc$0$217$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> > Hi,
> > We have 8 of these printers that we use to print BW text only
> documents
> > on.
> > Recently they have started to stop running because the colour ink tanks
> are
> > empty!
> > We do have the print in B/W only option set. Those nice people at Epson
> tell
> > me that the colour ink is being used each time we power the printer up
(at
> > least a couple of times a day as we use them in a mobile environment)
and
> > there is no way to make the printer work without colour ink! Rather
> > annoying, if we have to pay for colour ink we don't need / use...
> >
> > Is there any way we can trick the printer / software into believing
there
> is
> > colour ink there?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Meryl
> >
> >
>
>

 

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Meryl wrote:

> Is there any way we can trick the printer / software into believing
> there is colour ink there?

http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml - thius utility can freeze the level
of ink in the printer so it doesn't know that ink runs out and tries to
print even with empty cartridges. But they have to have some ink when
you freeze the level.

Do you have any other problems with these Epsons at work?



--
# £ukasz Ledóchowski
# GG:503647
# lukled@tlen.pl

 

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"Lukasz Ledochowski" <lukled@tlen.pl> wrote in message
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> Meryl wrote:
>
> > Is there any way we can trick the printer / software into believing
> > there is colour ink there?
>
> http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml - thius utility can freeze the level
> of ink in the printer so it doesn't know that ink runs out and tries to
> print even with empty cartridges. But they have to have some ink when
> you freeze the level.
>
> Do you have any other problems with these Epsons at work?
>
>
>
> --
> # £ukasz Ledóchowski
> # GG:503647
> # lukled@tlen.pl

Thanks for that £ukasz. That looks as if it is just what we need 🙂

We have only been using these printers for a couple of months and they seem
OK in all other respects. We bought them as an upgrade from Panasonic
dot-matrix printers (very reliable, cheap to run, but oh so slow!).

Thanks again,
Meryl.

 

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Where have you acquired the information that the heads will "burn up" on
Epson printers if used without ink in the head?

Epson heads use piezo-electric actuators which produce no measurable
heat when active, unlike thermal heads used in many printers which
actually heat a small resistor to boil the ink to propel it.

Further, assuming the color heads are not being used, and the ink usage
is only due to cleaning cycles, the head is not activated during this
process (again, unlike that of thermal heads). Epson heads use a passive
cleaning method which is just a suction pump applied to the outside of
the nozzles.

I do agree laser printers would have been a better choice for black only
printing, (unless high quality images are required) for many reasons,
unless the person is using vinyl coverings on the prints, which often
reason with the plastics in the laser printer toner.

Art

safetymom123 wrote:

> Ink is needed and you risk the chance of burning up the printhead with no
> ink. I suggest either buying laser printers for your b&w work or buy
> compatible cartridges for the C64.
>
>
>
>
> "Meryl" <meryl@oedev.com> wrote in message
> news:40f659bc$0$217$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>
>>Hi,
>> We have 8 of these printers that we use to print BW text only
>
> documents
>
>>on.
>>Recently they have started to stop running because the colour ink tanks
>
> are
>
>>empty!
>>We do have the print in B/W only option set. Those nice people at Epson
>
> tell
>
>>me that the colour ink is being used each time we power the printer up (at
>>least a couple of times a day as we use them in a mobile environment) and
>>there is no way to make the printer work without colour ink! Rather
>>annoying, if we have to pay for colour ink we don't need / use...
>>
>>Is there any way we can trick the printer / software into believing there
>
> is
>
>>colour ink there?
>>
>>Thanks,
>> Meryl
>>
>>
>
>
>